Vnews
1.3
Vnews is a powerful news program that provides news services on your Virtual
Server. With Vnews, you can create local newsgroups, post to these newsgroups,
and reply to posted messages.
NOTE: Vnews does not give access to the USENET newsfeed.
Installation
To install Vnews connect to your Virtual Server via Telnet
or SSH, and issue the commands below.
FreeBSD
% vinstall vnews
To make it easy for your users, we suggest creating a CNAME record to your DNS information, in order to keep
with the normal standard of news.YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME.
Access
All those who wish to access a Vnews newsgroup must have a valid User
Account on the Virtual Server. Vnews newsgroups can be accessed
using an Internet news reader, such as:
Configure the Internet news reader to access your Virtual Server on port 119.
Management
We provide two ways to manage Vnews newsgroups.
Customization
Vnews can be customized by making changes to the ~/etc/vnews.conf file. Use an online file editor, like
pico, or transfer the file to your PC in order to edit the file. Be sure to download and upload the
~/etc/vnews.conf file in ASCII mode.
The format of the ~/etc/vnews.conf file is as follows.
- At the beginning of the first line there will be the
#
symbol. This is called a remark. Placing a #
in front of a line, causes Apache not to read the text that follows
on that same line.
- The lines without a
# will be read and processed
by Apache. Make sure that these lines include valid commands. Usually
a remark and explanation of these commands will appear on the following
line.
You can enable Vnews logging by modifying the ~/etc/vnews.conf file. Remove the # character
from the beginning of the following line.
#VNEWS_LOGFILE /usr/log/vnews.log
If you want to change the name or location of the log file, change /usr/log/vnews.log
to the name or location that you prefer.
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